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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the sky when the narrator thinks they’ve crossed the boundaries of the Hempstock farm in Chapter 4?
(a) Orange.
(b) Green.
(c) Purple.
(d) Black.

2. In Chapter 2, how many beds are described in the narrator’s sister’s room?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. What is the name of the cat that turns up at Hempstock Farm in pagan days?
(a) Big Tom.
(b) Buttons.
(c) Monster.
(d) Big Oliver.

4. In Chapter 7, where does the narrator go to pray that Ursula has tired of her little game?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) His laboratory.
(c) The balcony.
(d) His parents’ room.

5. What color is the bridge that Lettie and the narrator cross after the binding in Chapter 4?
(a) Blue and brown.
(b) Red and yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of vehicle does the narrator’s father get in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 4, what is the second color Lettie wants to find?

3. What is Lettie’s ocean implied to actually be?

4. Where does Ellen Henderson live?

5. What color is the car the narrator’s father gets in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?

2. How does the narrator describe his family's last housekeeper in Chapter 6?

3. Why does the narrator say that his father has never hit him?

4. Why does the opal miner give the narrator a cat in Chapter 1?

5. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?

6. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

7. What are narcissi and what are they named for?

8. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?

9. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

10. What new job has the narrator's mother taken in Chapter 6?

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